Sujet

Sir E. P. Cowan, Mayor of Belfast, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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Sir E. P. Cowan, Mayor of Belfast, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. Chancellor. 'The Mayor of Belfast, Sir Edward Porter Cowan, of Craig-a-vad, Belfast, and of Clintaugh House, Anahilt, in the county of Down, upon whom the honour of knighthood was lately conferred by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is the only son of the late Mr. Samuel Cowan, of Cromoe House, in the county of Antrim, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. Edward Porter, of Belfast, and was born in the year 1842. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and in France, and is a magistrate for the counties of Antrim and Down, and also for the borough of Belfast, and chairman of the committee of the Ulster Banking Company. The family of the new knight is of Scottish origin, and settled in the county of Down early in the seventeenth century. Sir Edward Cowan married, in 1866, his cousin Agnes, daughter of Mr. Andrew Cowan, J.P., of Glenghana, in the county of Down'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A42_119

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6,4Mo (433,3Ko) / 11,1cm x 14,4cm / 1315 x 1703 (300dpi)

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